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Old 11-30-2013, 03:53 PM
nasica nasica is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2010 64bit
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Default Line spacing after mail merge

Hey guys,
Have, what I think is, a strange problem.
We are trying to do our wedding invites off a mail merge with a line spacing before and after the invitee of 1.5
To solve all the cases of the different types of people we invite (Singles, married couples and couples with different last name to each other) I have created the following field code (apologies for the entirely random field names)

Code:
 
 {MERGEFIELD firstname \f " "}
 {MERGEFIELD optional1 \f " "}
 {IF {MERGEFIELD firstname1} <> "" "&<CR>" "}
 {MERGEFIELD firstname1 \f " "}
 {MERGEFIELD optional2}
With the fields
firstname - first name of first guest
optional1 - last name of first guest if different to last name of second guest
firstname1 - first name of second guest, if exists
optional2 - last name of second guest or last name of married couple

After applying the mail merge everything works great except for the case of a Single guest. The line spacing (of 1.5) disappears. If I select that line and change it back to a line spacing of 1.0 then hover over the 1.5 option it displays the line spacing correctly but when I click on the option it reverts back, on the screen, to a line spacing of 1.0 even though the line spacing dialogue box says it is set to 1.5. I had a work around of setting the False section of the IF statement to <CR> but this is a bit of a hack and does not give the correct spacing.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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